Coin-handling machine.



C. S. BATDORF.

COIN HANDLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 22, I9I2. 1,239,251. Patented Sept. 4, 1917.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES S. IBATDORF, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO AUTOMATIC COIN- WRAPPING MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

COIN-HANDLING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Sept. 4, 1917.

Application filed October 22, 1912. Serial No. 727,219.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that CHARLES S. BATDOBF, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, has invented a new and useful Improvement in Coin-Handling Machines; and he does hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to coin handling machines and particularly to a machine of this character which is adapted to handle coins of a variety of sizes, and commonly ofdifferent denominations. The object of the invention is to provide means for separating a mass of any given size or denomination which the machine is desired to handle into predetermined definite quantities, each quantity containing, for example, from ten to several thousand coins, as desired; means to package these segregated quantities either in cartons or bags; means to indicate the number of coins so packaged at any stage of the packaging; means to seal the packages after a definite number of coins has been delivered to each; means to make cartons for comparatively small quantities of coin which cartons, when partially completed may be filled with coin by the machine and then sealed.

The invention has also for its object to provide means for the rapid counting of a large mass of coins, whether the same are afterward to be packaged or not.

A machine of this character is very useful in banks, department stores, railway companies, and other like institutions handling large or small quantities of coin, and it is particularly advantageous in banks where it is desirable to have on hand a large number of quantities or packages of coin in predetermined amounts for the purpose of fur than would usually require the employment of saidlarge universal machine.

bag or other receptacle in the path of the coin through said chute, means for feeding the coins separately through said chute and to said receptaole, means for preventing overthrow of the coin and for guiding the coin accur'ately into the receptacle; means operated by each coin in its passage from the table to the receptacle for registering the number of coins, so fed; and means operated also by the coins for automatically stopping the feed after a predetermined number of coins has been fed to the receptacle.

The invention also comprises the combination with the above mechanisms, of means for crimping or turning in the end edges of a tube or carton of paper or other like material in such manner that the material of the carton will be maintained in rolled or tubular form with one end open and adapted to receive coin when the partially finished carton is placed in position in respect to the feeding chute of the machine; and means for sealing the opposite end of the carton or tube after the same has been filled with coin.

Themachine has the advantage that its parts may be instantly shifted or adjusted to feed coin and. package any denomination of coin and arrangements of parts, one particular embodiment of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof. Fig.3 is a side elevation of the ma: chine looking from the right of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of the feeding, countpackage.

ing or registering and adjusting parts of the machine in front elevation, as in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of parts to the rear "of the parts shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a front elevation with parts broken away for clear illustration of the counting or registering dial or disk. Fig. 7 is a sectional view on the line 7-7 Fig. 6 of said disk or wheel. Fig. 8 is a rear elevation of said disk or wheel parts being removed for clear illustration. Fig. 9 is an inner face view of an adjusting ring adapted to be carried by the registering or counting disks to determine the number of coin fed tothe carton or Fig. 10 is an indicator ring carried on the face of the counting and registering disk opposite the ring shown in Fig. 9 by which the latter may be properly positioned by the operator. Fig. 11 (Sheet 5) is a rear view of an escapement and indicating segment for determining the number of coin to be fed to a bag or like receptacle and for indicating the number fed at any stage of the feed. Fig. 12 (Sheet 5) is a view of an escapement lever attached and used in conjunction with the segment Fig. 11. Fig. 13 (Sheet 4.) is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 1313 Fig. 4: of the automatic stop pin for interrupting the feed of coin through the feed chute after a predetermined number of coins have been fed. Fig. 14. (Sheet 4:) is a fragmentary view of a feed ratchet with its lever and pawl for actuating an indicating wheel shown in Figs. 1, 4i, 6 and 7. Fig. 15 (Sheet 1) is a reverse view of the parts shown in Fig. 1 1 in combination with means for preventing overfeed of the disk. Fig. 16 (Sheet 6) is a view partly in section of the turret carrying the package forming or sealing members; and Fig. 17 is a fragmentary view of oneof said members and of its connection with the actuating motor of the machine.

In describing the embodiment of the invention herein selected for illustration, I will first describe the parts of the machine with particular reference to its functions of forming cartons for the reception of comparatively small quantities of coin, and then describe it with reference to its function of filling said cartons with the predetermined quantities of coin and the indicating of the number of coins fed, and I will then describe it with reference to its capacity for feeding larger quantities of coin into bags or other like receptacles and with reference to the means for determining the number of coins for each bag, and for indicating the total number of coins handled at any stage of operation.

In so describing the machine, it will be necessary to describe incidentally certain parts which are common to each of said methods of use, and describe also the means by which the machine is adapted to handle different sizes of coin or, in other words, by which it operates as a universal machme.

Carton forming and sealing mechanism.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the frame of the machine may comprise a base plate 1, a front standard 2 branched at 3, 3 and a rear frame standard 1 to support a coin receiv ing table 5 and other parts of the mechanism to be hereinafter described. Upon the front standard 2 is pivotally mounted a turret 6 (Figs. 1 and 16, Sheets 1 and 6) having a plurality of radially arranged arms 7 each provided with a bearing 8 carrying a bushing 9 in which is mounted a spindle 10 carrying at its outer end a rotary crimper or sealing member 11. The rear end of each spindle 10 is pinned to a bearing ring 12 by which the spindle is held within its bearing 8 and the rear extremity of each spindle is provided with a transverse clutch pin 13 by which said spindle may be engaged with a clutch socket 141 (Fig. 17, Sheet 5) secured to the shaft of the driving motor 15. The turret spindle 16 (Fig. 16, Sheet 6) is secured within the turret by a pin 17, and has a head 18 at its rear end between which and the standard 2 is interposed a coil spring 19. The outer end of the turret spindle has also secured thereto a handle 20 by which this spindle and the turret may be turned up by the operator and the turret adjusted until the desired crimper spindle 10 is brought into alinement with the clutch member 14: of the motor shaft, whereupon the clutch pin 13 of the crimper spindle may be snapped into driving engagement with the clutch socket. As shown in Fig. 1 the crimper or sealing members 11 are of different diameters to correspond to the diameter of each denomination of coin for which the cartons are intended, and the inner diameter of each crimper member is made a little larger than the diameter of the coin to Which it corresponds to allow for the thickness of the several layers of the material of the carton to be formed in said crimper member, so that the inner diameter of said carton may be such as to easily and at the same time snugly receive the coins intended therefor. Each crimper member comprises an outer ring as shown, and a cross piece 21 by which the crimper member is secured to its spindle 10. Near the inner end of each crimper member ring is a crimper finger 22, which is arranged at an angle to the inner wall of the crimper ring in order that, it may properly engage the end edges of the tubular body of the carton to properly turn in or crimp said edges both to form the initial closed end of of the strip being somewhat greater than the length of the finished carton to allow material for the crimped in ends and the length of the strip being such as to make exactly two complete turns about the mandrel so that the ends of the strip subsequently coincide on the mandrel. This is desirable for the reason that if the strip is either of greater or less length the overlapping ends will cause a greater thickness on one end of the carton than on the other which might prevent smooth crimping in of the end edges and might cause the tearing of the carton material. This mandrel may be provided with a shoulder to cause the outer end of the carton body to project slightly beyond the end of the mandrel when wrapped about it to allow the material to be crimped in by the crimper member to form the incomplete carton. This mandrel together with the projecting end of the carton body thereon is thrust into the crimper member of the proper diameter, whereby the end edge of the carton body is engaged by the crimper finger, and inturned or crimped to finish one end of the carton and to hold the material of the carton in its coiled position. The inner end of the crimper member spindle 10 projects slightly within the cross piece 21 of the crimper member a distance equal to the depth of the head of the finished crimped end, so that the spindle end in the final stage of the crimper operation engages the inner end of the mandrel to maintain the crimp of a uniform depth throughout the circumference of the carton.

This crimped in bead or finished end of the partially finished carton furnishes a stop shoulder for the first coin fed into the carton by the machine, as well as furnishing the means by which this coin is held in its stacked position within the carton. Any number of such partially finished cartons may be furnished according to the number of coins to be packaged or a supply of these cartons may be made up at any time by the operator in anticipation of the work of packaging the coin.

The strips from which the cartons may be made may be cut in any desired manner.

In order to make cartons of different diameters, it is only necessary to employ a mandrel of the desireddiameter and coil thereon a strip of the necessary length to make two complete turns on the mandrel, and then after adjusting the crimper turret to bring the crimper of desired diameter into engagement with the motor shaft, and the formation of the carton may be carried out as described. When the crimper mechanism is not in use, the turret may be turned'so that the motor shaft stands between adjacent crimper members leaving all of such parts out of operation.

Having described the means for forming the unfinishedcartons, I will now describe the parts of the machine by which it is adapted to package comparatively small quantities of coin in such cartons, it being understood, however, that much of the mechanism so described is involved also in the bagging and counting functions.

The coin receiving table 5 has at its forward edge the curved delivery plate 23 which delivers to a feed chute 24. This feed chute is substantially ofthe form described in my previous Patent No. 998,830, above referred to, and comprises a back plate 25 (Fig. 2), having guide pins 26 slidingly mounted in lugs 27 on the machine frame, and said plate is held in rearward position b springs 28, and a fixed front plate 29 Fig. 1) which is preferably of glass in order that the disposition of the coins in the chute may be readily observed by the operator. This front plate is held to the frame of the feed chute by means of clips 29. An inclined bar or plate 30 forms the bottom of the chute along which the coins are fed. The back plate may be adjusted toward and from the front plate in order to vary the width of the chute to accommodate and guide coins of different thickness. The adjusting mechanism may be of any desired form, but as here shown comprises a triangular adjusting frame 31 guided in the machine frame bymeans of guide fingers 32, and provided at its an les with pins 33 which bear upon surfaces hot shown) on the back of the back plate. The ad usting frame is actuated by means of a hand lever 34 connected with said frame by a link 35 (Fig. 2). The upper end of said hand lever is provided with a spring stud 36 adapted to engage suitable recesses (not shown) in the top of a dial 37. The upper end of the hand lever is provided with an indicating mark 38 which may be caused to register with indicating marks 39 on the dial plate 37, so that when the hand lever is set with its indicating mark opposite one of these dial marks, the width of the feed chute may be accurately adjusted to feed dimes, pennies, nickels, quarters, half-dollars and dollars, respectively, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 4.

Opposite the lower end of the feed chute is mounted a feed wheel 40, which is knurled on its periphery to positively engage the edge of the coin as it is fed beneath said wheel and the lower bar 30 of the feed chute is also knurled as at 41 (Figs. 1 and 4) to positively engage the edge of the coin, so that the coin will not slip when gripped between the feed wheel and the bottom of the chute, but will be positively fed forward at the same speed as the feed wheel is driven. In order to accommodate coins of different diameters between the bottom of the feed chute and the feed wheel, the latter is ournaled in a rocking arm 42 (Figs. 1 and 4) which arm is pivoted on the pivot 43 of the adjusting lever 34, and a branch of said rocking arm is provided with a spring abutment 45 between which and the adjusting arm 34 is interposed a spring 46, and an adjusting screw 47 on said arm 44 engages the opposite side of the adjusting lever 34 whereby the initial position of the feed wheel 40, with respect to the bottom of the feed chute, may be regulated. The spring 46 serves to hold the feed wheel in depressed position or in the position nearest the bottom of the feed chute permitted by the adjusting screw 47 and the position of the lever 34; the distance between the feed wheel and the bottom of the chute for each adjustment of the wheel by the hand lever 34, is a little less than the diameter of the particular coin to be operated upon so that the wheel may positively and invariably engage the'coin to feed it forward. It is necessary that the spring pressure on the feed wheel, when it first engages the coin, shall be nicely adjusted, so that said pressure will not be so great that the feed wheel cannot rise readily over the top of the coin, while at the same time said pressure must be sufficient to permit the initial positive engagement of the coin. This is effected by means of the determined tension of the spring 46 and the adjusting screw 47. After the coin has been positively gripped by the feed wheel, it is necessary that the pressure on the coin be increased in order that the coin may de-' press the operating finger 48 at the lower end of the feed chute (Figs. 1 and 4) and the parts connected therewith hereinafter described.

To this end a second pressure spring 49 (Fig. 5) is mounted within the first spring 46, and is somewhat shorter than the spring 46, so that just before the feed wheel reaches the topmost part of the circumference of the coin, this second spring comes into play and the two springs together exert sufiicient pressure on the coin to cause it to positively operate the finger 48. It will be seen, therefore, that the adjusting lever 44both adj usts the width of the feed chute and simultaneously adjusts the distance between the feed wheel and the bottom of the feed chute to accord with the thickness and diameter, respectively, of the coin fed. The feed wheel is actuated by a belt pulley 50 connected by a belt 51 with a pulley 52 (Fig. 3) fixed on the pivot pin 43 of the adjusting arm 34, and a pulley 53 also fixed to said pivot pin is connected by a belt 54 with a pulley 55 on the shaft of the motor 15. This series of differential pulleys serves to drive the feed wheel at the required speed and with the required power without undue expenditure of power by the motor. Hence a comparatively small. motor may be used for operating the machine. At the extreme lower end of the feed chute is arranged a hood 56 which is of sul'licient height and depth to accommodate coins of largest size and which terminates in a circular guide or rim 57, so that as the coins enter said hood they are prevented from overthrow by the outer wall thereof and are guided to the cartons or bags as the case may be by the following devices.

Upon the base plate of the machine is pivoted a rotary standard 58 having arms 59 at the top upon which are pivotally mounted the rocking coin guiding tubes 60, which are of different diameters to accord with the diameter of the particular coins to be fed therethrough. In a machine for packaging United States currency the largest guide tube has an internal diameter slightly greater than that of the silver dollar, and the upper end of the tube has theenlarged guide rim 61 corresponding in diameter to the ring-like rim 57 of the feed chute 56.

The guide tubes 60 of less diameter have flaring upper rims, as for example, 62 which also conform at their largest diameter with the diameter of the hood rim 57 sothat as each tube is brought into position beneath said rim the coin passing from the hood into the guide will be accurately directed into the carton or bag held within or attached in alinement with said tube guide. At the lower end of the rotary standard 58 is a supporting plate 68 having arms upon each of which is a conical anvil or stop member 64 corresponding in diameter to the internal diameter of the beaded end of the carton hereinbefore described, and of a height corresponding to the depth of the bead on the carton. These anvils or stop members are fixed relatively to the particular guide tubes, and each lies directly beneath and in line with its own tube. This battery of guide tubes and rests may be adjusted to bring any one of the tubes in alinement with the rim 5'? of the feed hood 56 according to the particular denomination of coin to be fed and packaged. In placing a carton in position to receive coin, the particular guide tube in alinement with the hood is swung out by the finger of the operator, and the unfinished or unbeaded end of the carton is thrust upward within the guide tube. The tube is then permitted to swing back into vertical position and the lower beaded end of the carton is seated on the supporting plate over its particular stop or anvil member 64. It will be seen, therefore, that as the coins are fed into the carton the first coin will strike the anvil or rest 64, and be deflected flat and seated squarely within the carton with its edge resting on the inner edge of the bead. The lower ends of the guide tubes are flared as at 65 to facilitate the inserting of the carton therein. The internal diameter of each one of these guide tubes is a trifle greater than the external diameter of the carton to be inserted therein, so, that the free or uncrimped end of the carton by its own resiliency will swing out slightly and engage the sides of the guide tube, so as not to interfere with the guide and feed through the guide tube and into the carton. After the carton has been filled with the predetermined number of coins by means hereinafter described, the carton is removed from its feed tube and while held in the hand of the operator the free edge of the unfinished carton is thrust into the crimper member 11 of the proper diameter and crimped or beaded down upon the face of the end coin whereby the package is finished and sealed with the faces of the end coins exposed at opposite ends of the package whereby precisely the same sort of a package is produced as is produced on the universal machine ofmy prior Patent No. 998,830, above referred to.

In case it is desired to feed the coins into bags, the arms 59 supporting the upper ends of the guide tubes are each provided with hooks 66 whereby the upper edge of a cloth bag or like receptacle may be suspended by these arms with the adjacent feed tube extending into the mouth of the bag to feed the coins to the same. As a general rule, these books need only be provided upon either side of the guide tube for feeding the largest diameter of coins as of course the coins of the smaller diameter will feed more readily'through saidlarge tube into the bag as'through tubes exactly corresponding in diameter tothe coin fed. To hold the properv guide tube in position beneath the hood of the feed chute, a spring stud 67 is provided in the base plate of the machine and adapted ,to engage the supporting plate 63 in any one of its adjusted positions, so that by drawing out said spring stud the rotary standard may be turned to bring the proper tube into alinement with the hood, whereupon said hood may be locked in said position.

Having now described the general structure and arrangement of the parts for feeding coin'either to cartons or to bags, I will now proceed to describe the mechanism for counting the coins and for determining the number to be fed to each receptacle for packaging.

' At the lower end of the bottom plate of the feed chute is located the operating finger 48 for actuating the counting and indicating mechanism and for tripping a stop finger adapted to stop the feed of coins after a predetermined number has been delivered to'the receptacle. This operating finger is mounted upon a lever 68 pivoted at 69 and having pivoted to its outer end a link 70 which in turn is pivoted to one end of a pawl lever 71 mounted on a stud 72 of .the

machine fram This pa l lever carries a a slot 80 in said sleeve.

spring pawl 73, the outer end of which is yieldingly held in engagement with the ratchet wheel 74 by the spring 75, Figs. 1, 4

3, 4, l4 and 15. The ratchet wheel 74 is,

a longitudinally movable sleeve 78 fixed against rotation on the shaft by a stud 79, fixed to said shaft and projecting through This sleeve also carries a stud 81 adapted to be drawn into engagement with a slot 82 in a large sleeve 83 carrying a beveled pinion 84. The enlarged sleeveof said pinion is rotatably mounted upon a sleeve 85 of less diameter carrying a beveled pinion 86. The outer end of the sleeve 85 is slotted at 87 to receive a stud 88 also mounted on the longitudinally sliding sleeve 78. The upper end of the sleeve 78 also passes through the b'earing stud 77 and has fixed to its upper end, a grooved adjusting head 89 into the groove 90 of which projects a pin 91 carried by a pivoted adjusting lever 92 and having a spring stud 93 adapted to engage one or the other of two stop recesses 94 in an index plate 95. The larger pinion 84 engages a circular rack 96 fixed to an indicator disk 97, which disk is pivoted upon the main frame of the machine, while the similar pinion 86 engages a concentric rack 98 also on said disk. The outer rack 96 is provided with 50 teeth, the inner rack with 40' teeth, each of the pinions 84 and 86 is provided with 10- teeth and the ratchet wheel 74 on the lower or outer end of the shaft 76 is likewise provided with 10 teeth and rthermore the actuating lever 67, the link 0 and the pawl lever 71 are so proportioned that for each depression of the lever 68 by the riding ofa coin over the operating fingerv one of the pinions 84 or 86, the sleeve-7 8 is longitudinally adjusted on the shaft 76 by means of the lever 92, so that in one position of the sleeve or that shown in Fig. 4, the pin 81 will engage the notch 82 of the sleeve 83 carrying the pinion 84, so that rotation of the shaft 76 by the pawl and ratchet 7 3' and v 74 will positively drive this pinion thereby rotating ,the disk 97 through the rack 96, On the other hand,-when the sleeve is adjusted it is. movedcdownwardly along the shaft fjjoln the position" indicated in Fig. 4. The pin 81 will be disengaged from the slot 82 and pin 88 will engage the slot 87 of the sleeve 85 carrying the pinion 86 whereby the disk 97 will be driven positively by a pinion 86 through rack 98, and inasmuch as this rack and pinion are nearer the center of the disk than the rack and pinion 96 and 84 respectively, the disk will be driven a greater distance for each movement of the shaft by the former than by the latter. Referring to Fig. 6 it will be seen that the disk 97 isgraduated at its periphery into 50 divisions 100. Just inside of this graduated circle is a second graduated circle divided into 40 divisions 101, slightly greater in length than those of the outer circle. The divisions of these circles respectively are numbered in blocks of five. At any convenient point adjacent this disk as on the lug 77 is mounted an indicator finger 102, Fig. 4, which overlies the periphery of the disk and serves in conjunction with the graduated scales thereon to indicate the starting point indicating the count on the disk and also indicates the number of movements the disk has made in a count. When the inner pinion 86 is positively driven 40 movements of the pinion will cause the disk to make one complete revolution, thereby counting 40 coins. When, on the other hand, the outer pinion 84 is positively driven 5O movements, it will cause this disk to make one complete revolution thereby counting 50 coins. So that on the one hand forty coins fed past the graduating finger 48 will turn the disk one revolution and on the other hand fifty coins will do so.

In order therefore to fill a carton, for example, with forty or fifty coins, as the case may be, and then stop the feed until a new carton has replaced the old, I provide the following means for checking the feed of coin automatically operated by the revolutions of the disk 97 Referring again to Fig. 6, it will be seen that the disk is divided into four quadrants by means of sliding trip blocks 103, each having a pin 104 projecting through a slot 105, Fig. 8, in the periphery of the disk 94, each pin being fixed to a link 105 slidingly mounted on the back of the disk and each provided at its inner end with a pin 106, Fig. 7, sliding in a slot 107 extending to the front of the disk. At the front of this indicating disk is mounted an adjusting plate or disk 108,.

Figs. 4, 6 and 7, which may turn on the stud 97 by which the indicator disk is secured to the frame of the machine. At the rear of this adjusting disk, Fig. 9, are four slots 109, 110, 111, and 112. These cam slots are ndicated in dotted outline also in Fig. 6 and each engage respectively the outer ends of the pins 106 of each sliding link 105*. The inner face of the adjusting disk 108 is also provided with four stop sockets 113 which cotiperate with a swan ball or friction member 114 Fig. 7, seated in the hub of the indicator disk 97, so that the adjusting disk 108 may be turned to any one of the four positions to adjust the cam slots 109, 110, 111, and 112, respectively, with respect to'the pins 106 engaged thereby. These cam slots are so shaped radially of the adjusting disk that when in any one position of adjustment, as for example, that shown in Fig. 6, those portions of each slot nearest the center of the disk will engage the pins 106 and thereby withdraw all of the trip blocks 103 within the periphery of the indicator disk 97. Adjacentthe periphery of the indicator disk 97 is mounted a trip lever 114, Figs. 1 and 4, pivoted on a stud 115 projecting from the machine frame, and having an opposite arm 116 which engages an adjacent arm 117 of a second trip lever 118 also pivoted on said stud. This second lever is connected by a link 119 to a lever 120 pivoted on a stud 121 on the machine frame and having a spring stud 123, Figs. 4 and 13, said stud having a spring plunger 124 forming a bearing for a spring 125 in a spring socket member 126. Mounted on the plate 127, Figs. 4 and 13, lying adjacent the path of the coins through the feed chute and substantially at the point which said coins are received between the feed wheel 40 and the bottom 41 of the feed chute and just above the position of the actuating finger 48 is a stud 123. The stud 123 is provided with an annular groove 128 and at its outer end with a knurled knob 129, so that when the stud is drawn out against the tension of its spring, the locking lever 120 will hold the stud in such retracted position and out of the path of the coins. A. spring 130, Figs. 1 and 4, extending between the trip lever 118 and the frame of the machine normally draws down the arm 117 of the lever 118 and consequently through the link .119 holds the lever 120 within the annular groove 128 of the stud 123 when the latter is retracted.

The same spring likewise holds the operative end of the trip lever 114 sullieiently close to the indicating disk 97 to cause said lever to lie in the path of the trip l)l()('l\'S 103 when the latter are extended beyond the periphery of the indicatordisk. The lever 114 also is so positioned relatively to the indicator disk that one of the trip blocks 103, for example, the lowest one shown in Fig. 4, will trip the lever 114 just as the zero point on the disk reaches the indicator pointer 102 at the completion of a revolution. Thus, when only one of the trip blocks 103, as for example the lowest one in Fig. 4, is extended the disk will make one forty movements in a revolution, forty coins will be fed when this pinion is in engagement with its rack before the feed is stopped. Likewise inasmuch as the pinion 84 causes the disk to make fifty movements in a revolution, fifty coins will be fed before the stop pin 123 stops the feed. Consequently, with but a single trip block 123, the coins may be fed either in divisions of forty or fifty according to the setting of the pinions 86 and 84, respectively.

In order to determine at any time how many coins less than the number forty or fifty may have been fed at any stage of a revolution of the indicator disk, it is only necessary to observe the position of graduations of the disk with respect to the indicator finger 102 and to note Whether the adjusting lever 92 for the actuating sleeve on the shaft is set at 40 or 50. When set at 40, the inner graduated circle is to be read, when set at 50, the outer. Hence the total number of coins packaged in cartons may quickly be determined by observing the number of packages and the number of surplus coins short of a package indicated by the indicator disk.

In case it is desired to feed a less number of coins than forty or fifty to a package, a plurality of these trip blocks 103 are pro- .vided which divide the disk into fractions of the total number fed for a complete revolution of the disk. Thus, if a pair of opposite trip blooks are projected, it is obvious that only twenty coins will be fed before the stop pin 123 checks the feed when the disk is operated through a 40-rack 98, and similarly twenty-five coins will be fed when a disk is operated through the 50- rack 96. Again, if all of the trip blocks 123 are projected only ten coins will be fed before the feed is interrupted when the disk is actuated through the 40-rack.

In order, therefore, to adjust the trip blocks for feeding these various quantities of coin, the cam slots 109, 110, 111 and 112 at the back of the adjusting disk 108 are so shaped that when the adjusting disk is in the position indicated in Fig. 6 either .forty or fifty coins may be fed in one series. To quickly indicate the position of adjustment, the indicator disk is provided near the periphery of the adjusting disk with a zero mark 131, Fig. 6, and the edge of adjusting disk is graduated at 132 to indicate the proper position of the trip blocks,

. when forty or fifty coins may be fed; and

133 when twenty or twenty-five coins may be fed, and finally at 134 when ten coins may be fed. The cam slots 109, 110, 111 and 112, ar e so shaped in the position of the adjusting disk indicated in Fig. 6 when 40 50 graduation 132 is at zero but one of the trip blocks will be projected. lVhen the,-2025 graduatiQn 133 is brought to zero, two of the trip blocks will be projected at opposite sides of the disk. When the graduation 10 133 is brought to zero, all four of the trip blocks will be projected, when the disk is brought opposite the word Bag Fig. 10, all trip blocks will be retracted so that an indefinite number of coin may becounted. The feed of forty or fifty coins, as above stated, is determined by the actuation of the disk through the 40-rack or 50-rack, respectively, and likewise the feed of twenty or twenty-five coins is determined by the same status of the parts,

whereas the feed of ten coins is determined by the actuation of disk through the 40- rack. and the projection of all the trip blocks. It will be seen, therefore, that simply through manipulation of the adjusting lever 92, either rack may be brought into operation, and by position of the adjusting disk 108 varying numbers of coins may be fed to the carton of proper size ranging from ten to fifty coins to each.

As above stated, when the'carton beaded at one end is filled, it is removed from its guide tube 60, and while still grasped by the operator. it is transferred immediately to and the open end is crimped in or beaded by the crimper member 11 of proper size, thus completing and sealing the package and preventing any loss of coin and insuring accuracy of count.

Having described the mechanism and its mode of operation for packaging the coins in cartons, the mechanism for delivering predetermined numbers of coins in excess of fifty to bags or other receptacles will be described.

Referring to Fig. 11, I have shown an escapement segment 135 having a series of teeth 136 and secured to a hub 137 which is .pivotally mounted on the bearing 97 Fig. 7, on the same stud 97' as the indicator disk 97. Cooperating with this segment is an escapement rocker 138 pivoted at 139 on the machine frame having an escapement tooth 140 Fig. 12, and a checking tooth 141 at its rear end which cofiperate with the teeth 136 on the escapement segment 135. Pivotally mounted also on the escapement rocker is a pawl 142, Fig. 4, which rocks freely to the left, as viewed in said figure, but is held against rocking in the opposite direction by suitable stop shoulders. This pawl likewise is provided with a small stud or handle 143 by which the escapement rocker may be operated by hand to permit the escapement segment to rotate to inoperative position. On the back of indicator disk 97 is a trip block 144, Figs. 4 and 8, which cooperates with the swinging pawl 142 on the escapement rocker to raise the escapement tooth of said rocker capement segment at the completion of a an indicating revolution of the indicator disk. On the machine frame to the rear ofthe escapement segment is mounted a scale 146 with which finger or pin 147 at the forward end of the escapement segment cooperates, whereby the escapement segment may be properly positioned to provide for the counting or feeding of a predetermined number of coins indicated by the position of said finger with respect to said scale. The scale here shown is marked with indications from one to one thousand at the outer graduated circle thereof and from one thousand to one at the inner graduated circle, each numbered space on the outer and inner circles indicating one hundred coins, and the graduation space on the inner circle indicating fifty coins. in operating this bagging or counting mechanism, the outer or -rack of the indicator disk 97 is employed for actuation of the disk, so that for every complete revolution of the disk fifty coins will have been registered and fed. in observing the position of the parts in Fig. 4: it will be seen that when the indicator finger 102 points to the zero mark on the indicator disk, the trip block 1&5 on the back of the indicator disk is in position just past the swinging pawl 142 of the escapement rocker 138. In this figure also the escapement segment is shown out of operative position, and stopped by the engagement with any suitable stop on the machine frame. The hub of the escapement segment is partially encircled by a spring actuated cord 1&9, Figs. 2, 1 and 11, with which is connected a spring 150 having its opposite end secured to the machine frame as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, which tends to rotate the segment to the right or in the direction of the hands of a watch, as viewed in Fig. 4c. The forward end of this segment is provided with an extension 151 having a trip finger 152 adapted to engage the trip lever 118, Fig. i, when the segment escapes from the escapement rocker 138 whereby the trip lever 118 is depressed and through the link 119 the lever 120 releases the stop pin 123 of the feed chute whereby the feed of the coins is checked. The operation of the mechanism just described is as follows:

All trip blocks 103 of indicator disk 97 are retracted by setting adjusting disk 108 opposite the word Bag.

The 50 pinion 84: is thrown into driving engagement with the actuating shaft 7 6 as described. The escapement segment is positioned to the left by the operator to bring its indicating finger 147 opposite the number on the scale 146 designating the number of coins to be fed to a given bag or receptacle. If one thousand coins are to be fed to the receptacle, the operating finger is brought back to the last graduation "of such escapement mechanism. Each movement of the segment indicates the feed of fifty coins. The feed of. any number of 0 coins less than fifty will be indicated on the indicator disk 97 by reading the outer circle of graduations thereof. Therefore, at all times, it is possible to determine at a glance the total number of coins fed.

if a less number than a thousand, say any number of hundreds, is to be fed, the indicating finger 1 17 of the segment is brought back opposite the proper number on the inner circle of numbers of the scale 146. For example, if one hundred coins are to be fed, the indicator finger is brought opposite the number 100 at the lower end of the scale. lhereupon the escapement segment will permit two complete revolutions of the indicator disk before the tripping finger 152 of said segment trips the lever 118 thereby throwing the stop pin 123 across the path of the coins. K

It is to be understood that when this socalled bagging mechanism isin operation all of the trip blocks 103 of the indicator disk are in retracted position, so that the trip lever 114 cooperating therewith ,is not actuated at any point in the rotation of said. indicating disk, but the stop pin 123 is only operated by the trip finger 152 of the escapement segment. It will be seen, therefore, that the automatic stopping of the feed of the coins is only effected in this bagging operation when the escapement segment escapes entirely from the escapement rocker 138.

If it is desired to feed a greater number than a thousand coins to a receptacle, or if it is desired to count consecutively, say a greater number than one thousand coins, it is only necessary to restore the indicator of the segment bringing its indicating finger opposite the number 1000 on the scale and then continuing the operations as before. it will be seen, therefore, that this mechanism is adapted not only to feed a predetermined number of coins to a receptacle, but is capable of counting anindefinite number of coins, it being necessary only at the completion of the feed of each thousand coins to jot down a record thereof, then restore the escapement segment to initial position and proceed with the feed of the next thousand.

The outertircle of numbers'on the scale will indicate instantly to the operator the exact number of coins in multiples of fifty that have been fed and the scale upon the indicator disk will indicate the number in excess of the last fifty that have been fed, giving instantly the total number of coin passed through the machine.

In a machine of this character which is operated at extremely high speed, it is absolutely essential to insure accuracy of operation to prevent positively any overthrow of the feeding or indicating mechanism. To these ends, I have provided a very simple and extremely effective device.

Referring to Figs. 14 and 15, it will be seen that the pawl lever 71 is provided with a pin 153 which is arranged to come into positive engagement with the ratchet Wheel 74 at the rear of, in this case the third tooth of said ratchet wheel, back of the tooth engaged by the pawl 73 when said pawl has driven the ratchet wheel to the full limit of its stroke. In this position of the parts illustrated in Fig. 14, the ratchet wheel is positively held both against backward and forward movement by said pin 153, which presses strongly against the tooth of the ratchet wheel. Therefore, there is no possibility of overthrow of the ratchet wheel by the pawl when the former is actuated by the latter. This is an extremely important improvement in this connection, for the reason that overthrow of the ratchet wheel might cause skipping of the indicating parts of the mechanism, whereby accurate count will be destroyed. Furthermore this stop pin 153 on the pawl lever 71 prevents any backward movement of the ratchet wheel due to drag of the spring pawl 73 thereon being released from its tooth, because considerable movement of the pin 153 is required to disengage it from its tooth due to the fact that said pin is nearer the pivot points of the pawl lever. Therefore the spring pawl 73 may travel beyond the end of the next tooth behind it before the stop pin 153 releases the tooth with which it is engaged so that the drag of the end of the pawl 73 being over the tooth behind it cannot reverse the movement of the ratchet 74.

To further insure the holding of the parts against overthrow or back lashing, 1 provide the shaft 76 with a tooth Wheel 15 1 which is engaged by the roller 155 on one arm 156 of a bell crank lever pivoted at 157 on the machine frame, the opposite arm' 158 of which is connected by a spring 159 with the machine frame, which spring serves to depress the roller 155 into the rounded recesses of the tooth wheel 154 and as said roller rides over one of the teeth of said wheel the spring action of the bell crank lever serves to rotate the wheel and consequently the actuating shaft slightly to bring it accurately to proper position and to stop it there. This mechanism therefore provides means not only to prevent overthrow of the indicating and controlling mechanism, but to move the same uniformly precisely equal distances for each feed of a coin to hold the same securely against both overthrow movement and back lash, or in other words, in exactly accurate position for each step of the feed.

The feed Wheel and the actuating finger 48 are so positioned relatively that after the pawl has fully actuated the ratchet, the feed Wheel still engages the coin and still depresses the finger for some appreciable period of time so that absolutely all momentum of the counting mechanism is destroyed before the stop pin clears the ratchet wheel by escape of the coin from beneath the feed wheel.

From a consideration of the above described mechanism, it is evident that this invention covers means for packaging coins of all sizes in any predetermined and desired number per package, and mechanism for counting coin in unlimited quantities. It also covers means for indicating at any stage of the count the exact number of coins delivered to the receptacle, Whether a carton, bag or of any other form. It also covers means for partially forming a carton or receptacle for a limited number of coins, and means for completing and sealing each package after it is filled.

It will be seen, also, that these various operations are performed by combinations of mechanisms having many elements in common whereby unusual compactness and simplicity of structure is obtained and whereby also economy of manufacture is secured.

While I have herein described the particular embodiment of the invention, the particular arran ement of parts, it will be evident that many changes may be made in the apparatus within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. In a coin handling machine, the combination with coin feeding means adapted to feed coins of various sizes, including a feed chute, a rotatable support at the end of said feed chute carrying a number of coin guides corresponding respectively in size to the size of the coin to be fed, means on said support for supporting a receptacle within any of said guides, means for indicating the number of coins fed to said receptacle and means to check the feed after a. predetermined number of coins have been so fed. Y

2. In a coin handling machine, the combination with means for feeding coins to a receptacle, of means for indicating the numthe construction and mode of operation of Y her of coins fed at any stage of the feed and comprising a rotary indicating disk, means actuated by each coin in its passage through said feeding means to rotate said disk and means interposed between the actuating mechanism and said disk to vary the movement of said disk for each coin fed to vary the count indicated by said disk.

3. In a coin handling machine, the combination with means for feeding coins of various sizes and for delivering the same to a receptacle, of means for interrupting the feed after any predetermined number of coins have been fed, means for indicating the number of coins so fed, and means for counting an indefinite number of coins.

4. In a coin handling machine, the combination with means for feeding masses of coin of various sizes to a receptacle one by one, a rotary member for indicating the number of coins fed, a member located in the path of the coins through said feeding means adapted to be operated by each coin to actuate said indicator member and adjustable means interposed between said actuating member and said indicator member to vary the indicating movements of said indicator member to indicate different numbers of coins.

5. In a coin handling machine, the combination with means for feeding masses of coins of various sizes one by one to a receptacle, a rotary member for indicating the number of coins fed, a member located in the path of the coins through said feeding means adapted to be operated by each coin to actuate said indicator member, and adjustable means interposed between said actuating member and said indicator member to vary the indicating movements of said indicator member 'to indicate different numbers of coins, and means to check the feed of the coins after a predetermined number has been fed in any position of said adjustable means. i

6. In a coin handling machine, the combination with means for feeding coins one by one to a receptacle, an indicating member operable by the passage of each coin through said feeding means, adjustable means on said indicator member for checking the feed of the coins after a predetermined number of coins has been fed, said adjustable means being adapted to vary the operation of said checking means to vary the number of coins fed between each checking operation.

7. In a coin handling machine, the combination of means for feeding coin and delivering the same one by one to a receptacle, of an indicator member for indicating the number of coins fed, a member interposed in the path of the feed of the coin operably connected with said indicator member to actuate the same, a feed checking member for checking the feed ofthe coins after a predetermined number has been fed, means on said indicator member to throw said checking member into operation, and means for adjusting said means to vary the number of coins fed between each checking operation, and said indicator means having means for indicating said varied number of coins fed.

8. In a coin handling machine, the combination of means for feeding coins, and for delivering the same one by one to a receptacle, means operated by the passage of each coin through said feeding means for indicating the feed of variably limited numbers of coin, means for indicating the feed of a greater number of coins, means on the first indicatingmeans to actuate said second indicating means, means on each of said indicating means to check the feed after a variable predetermined number of coins has been. fed.

9. In a coin handling machine, the combination of means for feeding coins one by one, and delivering the same to a receptacle, of a rotary indicator disk, a stationary indicator finger cooperating therewith, an actuating shaft for said disk, a coin operable member operated by the passage of the coin through said feeding means to actuate said shaft, a plurality of racks on said disk, and

pinions on said shaft cooperating with each v rack and means for throwing either of said pinions into operation to operate said disk through either of said racks whereby said disk in a complete revolution may indicate the feed of different quantities of coin and means for checking the feed of the coin after each complete revolution of said indicating disk. 4 a

10. In a coin handling machine, the combination with means for feeding coins one by one and delivering the same to a receptacle, of a rotary indicating disk, and a fixed indicating finger cooperating therewith, an actuating shaft for said disk, said disk car rying a plurality of racks, pinions on said shaft cooperating with each rack respectively, means operated by the passage of the coins through said feeding means to actuate said shaft, a clutch causing said shaft to actuate either of said pinions whereby said disk during one complete revolution thereof may indicate the feed of varying numbers of colns according to which rack and pinion actuates said disk.

11. In a coin handling machine, the combination of means for feeding coins one by one and delivering the same to a receptacle, of a rotary indicating disk, of a stationary indicatmg finger cooperating therewith, an actuating shaft on the disk, means operated by the passage of a coin through said feed mg means to actuate said shaft, a rack on said dlsk, a-pinion on said shaft adapted to gagement with said shaft, a coin counting member and means on said indicating disk to actuate said coin counting member.

12. In a coin handling machine, the combination with means for feeding coins one by one and delivering the same to a receptaclefiof a rotary indicating disk, of a stationary indicating finger cooperating therewith, an actuating shaft for the disk, means operated by the passage of a coin through said feeding means to actuate said shaft, a rack on said disk, a pinion on said shaft adapted to be thrown into and out of operative engagement With said shaft, a coin counting member, and means on said indicating disk to actuate saidcoin counting member, and means counting member to check the feed of coin after a predetermined number has been fed.

operated by said coin In testimony whereof, I the said CHARLES 20 S. BATDQRF have hereunto set my hand.

CHARLES S. BATDORF.

Witnesses:

JOHN F. MILLIGAN, DAVID I. WIGKS. 

